Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
The Vast of Night
Scored from 676 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
In 1950s small-town New Mexico, a young switchboard operator and a radio DJ pick up a strange audio frequency one night during a high school basketball game. As they investigate the signal and interview locals who have heard it before, they uncover unsettling accounts of unexplained phenomena in the desert sky.
Released in 2019, The Vast of Night is a drama, mystery and science-fiction film.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 295 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 676 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 702 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 13,058 other films from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Vast of Night lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2010s (13,059 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 676.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
